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For generations, the banyan tree along Lahaina town’s historic Front Street served as a gathering place, its leafy branches unfurling majestically to give shade from the Hawaiian sun.
Like the town itself, its very survival is now in question, its limbs scorched by a devastating fire that has wiped away generations of history.
Like the town of Lahaina itself, the majestic banyan tree's survival is in question with its limbs scorched by a fire that has wiped away generations of...
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For generations, the banyan tree along Lahaina town's historic Front Street served as a gathering place, its leafy branches unfurling majestically to give shade from the Hawaiian sun. Like the town itself, its very survival is now in question, its limbs scorched by a devastating fire that has wiped away generations of history. It shaded townsfolk and tourists alike from the Hawaiian sun, befitting for a place once called “Lele,” the Hawaiian word for “relentless sun.”